Local boy, Stephen Viljoen, is the chief operations officer of London based Slightly Mad Studios, the creators of EAs awesome backtobasics Need for Speed SHIFT. He sheds some light on the creation process. FULL STORY >

Africa\'s first mobile novel or m-novel, Kontax, was launched yesterday by the Shuttleworth Foundation. FULL STORY >

Samsung\'s compact digital ST50 is a great point and shoot device offering solid auto functions and is sleek with brushed stainless steel exterior. FULL STORY >

With a full QWERTY, impressive email capabilities and handy media functions the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an ideal entry level smartphone. FULL STORY >

The Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 is Microsofts thinnest keyboard ever, as its just slightly thicker than the width of a AAA battery. FULL STORY >

RIM\'s BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac will be available as a free download from www.blackberry.com/mac on Friday. FULL STORY >

The HTC Hero will be available in South Africa from 7 October 2009. FULL STORY >

Microsoft has announced that its free antivirus application, Security Essentials, will be made available for public download today. FULL STORY >

Samsung is marketing the Jet as smarter than a smartphone. We dont know if that is necessarily the case, but it is definitely faster with an 800 MHz processor. FULL STORY >

IBM announced that it has partnered with Canonical Ubuntu to provide emerging markets with open-source-based software for netbooks. FULL STORY >

The Google Mobile team announced in a blog post yesterday that push functionality is now available for Gmail users making use of Google Sync on the iPhone, iPod touch, or Windows Mobile handsets. FULL STORY >

Sony\'s VPLDX11 Data Projector offers a good compromise between price, performance and portability. With 3000 lumens of colour output and weighing just 2.1 kg it\'s ideal for medium sized conference and large classroom presentations. FULL STORY >

Google will soon begin to crawl and index all Google Docs that are published and externally linked to. FULL STORY >

Premium mobile video with no DRM attached - infinit.mobi looks to be taking the road less travelled. We chat to Rowan Polovin, founder and CEO of Cape Town based mobile web company MEDIAS, about his latest venture and their unconventional strategy. FULL STORY >

Nokia has been named as the world\\\'s most sustainable technology company. This according to the 2009-10 edition of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes that was released today. FULL STORY >